What PayPal does with your money?
The money-transfer service earns interest on funds in its custody, but analysts say it’s a drop in the bucket compared to eBay’s larger revenue picture.
Archive for February 27, 2008
Playstation Store getting overhauled in April
While Metal Gear Solid DualShock and God of War news may have dominated our Destination PlayStation coverage one other interesting…
Plants use Twitter to tell you to water them
The gang from Botanicalls used one of Adafruit’s new open source hardware ethernet shields for Arduino (open hardware too) to make some plants talk - and now you can too! That’s right, having your houseplants Twitter you when they need water and more! You can see what one of the plants is doing now…
New MacBook Pro More Powerful, Has Multitouch Trackpad
New versions of the MacBook Pro have been released today. They come loaded with up to 2.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Penryn processors, and the MacBook Air’s trackpad which allows for multi-touch gestures. The low-end MacBook has also been upgraded. Full specs and prices after the jump.
Adobe AIR 1.0 is out!
The Adobe® AIR™ runtime lets developers use proven web technologies to build rich Internet applications that deploy to the desktop and run across operating systems.
What type of developer are you?
7 Jobs That Nokia’s Phone of the Future Will Be Good For
hahaha…thats a good analysis by wired magazine…pretty good
Internet Ad Revenue Exceeds $21B in 2007
Online advertising revenues exceeded $21 billion for the first time in 2007, although preliminary data compiled by an industry trade group also suggest growth is slowing.
Pakistan bans YouTube for these videos of Muhammed
The Pakistani government caused a worldwide two-hour long YouTube outage on Sunday after it ordered Internet service providers to block the site.
Wii Menu updates to 3.2
Your Wii is glowing blue. It wants you to update. Perhaps this kills the “Twilight Hack” that all of the kids are into now?
Linux user in Vista land.
5+ year Linux user (straight Linux, no Windows on the desktop) spends 4 months with Vista as his desktop. Read how he got comfy (Getting Konsole running, WinMover and booting out Outlook) and his disappointments.
RIAA fails again to get default judgment in uncontested case
A judge has refused to issue a default judgment for the RIAA in a case where a P2P defendant never showed up in court. In denying the default judgment motion, the judge cited the RIAA’s boilerplate complaint as well a number of defenses, the viability of which have yet to be “conclusively determined.”
